Several months ago I became obsessed with a colony of trees in Utah called Pando Trees. Measuring 43 hectares and weighing 6,000 tons, they're pretty impressive above ground. But what really matters is what is happening below. The interconnected root system is the oldest living organism in the world. No matter what happens above ground, that root system stays alive, and continually shoots up new trees.

Aside from all this, there's a nice side-benefit about starting PandoDaily: I can officially now call bullshit on people (usually men) who insist women don't start companies in the Valley, because men don't let them.

My friend Arnon Kohavi is back in the news. (By "friend" I mean "guy I recently compared to Harold Hill in the Music Man" and "investor I said startups should never take money from and LPs should never give money to.")